GOLD WINNER COMING

AND the first request for a lecture from Gold Walkley winner Jo McCarthy came from the Darwin Press Club, right after she finished her acceptance speech. The Newcastle Herald journo who blasted open the child sex scandal within the Catholic Church and sparked a royal commission, said she would be honoured to visit the Territory. noticed — except it was picked up by Google alerts. Police quickly pulled the stats off their website — but the cat was out of the bag. They were forced push the site live that afternoon. They tipped off some lesssavvy media that the stats had been ‘‘released’’ and rushed out a press release in a bid to stop reporting of the bungle. But, if you are reading this, you’ll know that didn’t work.